Supreme Court Review Sought by Trump Administration on Birthright Citizenship Ban

The Trump administration has officially requested the Supreme Court to step in and assess a narrower version of its executive order aimed at prohibiting birthright citizenship. This move challenges three nationwide injunctions issued in Maryland, Massachusetts, and Washington state.

Judicial actions in these states swiftly blocked the administration’s attempt to ban birthright citizenship, a directive signed by the President on his inaugural day. All three courts implemented a nationwide hold on the ruling, an action that the Trump administration criticizes as excessively broad.

In a court filing submitted on Thursday, Acting U.S. Solicitor General Sarah Harris contended that the lower courts exceeded their authority. She urged the Supreme Court justices to confine their rulings to encompass only those individuals directly affected by the respective courts.

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Harris’s filing stressed that these cases question pivotal constitutional principles with significant implications for border security. She wrote, “These cases – which involve challenges to the President’s January 20, 2025 Executive Order concerning birthright citizenship – raise important constitutional questions with major ramifications for securing the border.”

She further elaborated on the request by stating, “At this stage, the government comes to this Court with a ‘modest’ request: while the parties litigate weighty merits questions, the Court should ‘restrict the scope’ of multiple preliminary injunctions that ‘purpor[t] to cover every person in the country,’ limiting those injunctions to parties actually within the courts’ power.”

To this point, no judicial body has ruled in favor of the Trump administration’s executive order aimed at banning birthright citizenship. Various district courts have consistently impeded its implementation.

The Department of Justice has sought to depict the order as a crucial aspect of President Trump’s wider plan to reform the United States immigration framework while addressing the persistent crisis at the southern border.

This is an unfolding story with potential developments. Stay tuned for further updates.